Bema Witdman Bellefonte, Pa., November 3, 1911. PRAY = 3 EE TERMS OF SusscrIPTION.—Until further notice this paper will be furnished to subscribers at the following rates : Paid strictly in advance $1.00 Paid before expiration of year - 1.50 Paid after expiration of year 2.00 Democratic County Ticket. For Sheriff. A. B. LEE, of Potter township. For Treasurer. Joux D. MILLER, of Walker township. For Register. J. Frank SmiTH, of Centre Hall. For Recorder. W. FrANCIS SPEER, of Bellefonte. For Prothonotary. D. R. FOREMAN, of Bellefonte. For District Attorney. D. PauL FORTNEY, of Bellefonte. For County Commissioners. W. H. NoLL, of Spring township. D. A. Grove, of College township. For Auditors. SiNie H. Hoy, of Benner township. JEREMIAH BRUNGART, of Miles township. For Coroner. Dr. P. S. FISHER, of Walker township. For Counly Surveyor. J. H. WeTZzEL, of Bellefonte. A Dirty Lie Nailed. nn “GEORGE YARNELL, the Republican candi date for Sheriff, is a friend of the old soldier. He never branded the Grand Army button as the ‘badge of government paupers.’ "— Belle Jonte Republican. - - - » . . - -. - “GEORGE YARNELL, Republican nominee for Sheriff, has the highest respect for the boys who wore the blue in defense of the flag. This explains why the DEMOCRATIC WATCH: MAN is so bitterly opposed to YARNELL and so deeply interested in the election of LE. Mr. YARNELL is not the type of man who would insult the old soldier by calling him a govern ment pauper.’ — Bellefonte Republican. The above two items we get from the Bellefonte Republican of last week. Asno | one has ever charged that Mr. YARNELL | had spoken of either the Grand Army | button or the old soldiers in the con- temptuous manner stated, and these as- sertions were not published in his defense, | there could be but two other purposes in sending out the dirty inuendoes; the one | to give the old soldiers and their friends, the impression that Mr. LEE had so spok- | en; the other to suggest to men, unprin- cipled enough to resort to such methods: a hint to manufacture and circulate a base and infamous falsehood against one of our best citizens and as true a friend of the old soldiers as lives within the county. Decent men scorn such methods, but | to the disgrace of us all there are those permitted to live and claim citizenship among us, who are neither honest,decent or truthful. Some of them have already framed this suggestion of an unprincipled publication into a campaign lie and start- ed it on its rounds. We heard it told last week out in Curtin township, as an actual truth, by a man who had never seen or spoken to Mr. LEE, or couldn't tell where, at what time, to whom, or upon what occasion he had so expressed himself. He simply asserted that “it was a fact and he knew it to be so.” It is un- necessary to say that this fellow was out working in the interest of Mr. YARNELL and in place of trying to show that he was fit for and deserving of the place, was attempting to poison the few old soldiers left against Mr. LEE, whose qualifica- tion for the office, whose worth as a citi- zen and whose manly and decent way of electioneering are bringing to him such hosts of friends. To prove the baselessness of this dirty fabrication as well as to show the public what contemptible and disreputable, methods the Republican and some of those working for YARNELL are stooping to, this paper is authorized to offer $100, to be paid over to any hospital, church or other charity thac Mr. Yarnell and his friends may name, if they will produce a single reputable citizen who will face Mr. Lee and under oath give time, place, and occasion on which he stigmatized the “Grand Army button as the badge of gov- ernment paupers,” or ‘‘insulted the old | soldier by calling him a government men- dicant.” Here, Mr. Republican, and Mr. YAR- | NELL, is a chance to make good your un- manly and your cowardly insinuations,— if there is any truth in them; and at the same time earn for any deserving charity you name, aid to the amount of the fig- | ures given? Will you undertake it? Dare you under- take it? Or will you sit down, branded as com- " mon liars and unprincipled prevaricators, without manliness enough to undo a wrong that you have wilfully and will ingly commi ~The postal bank established at Hazleton recently has proved a disap- pointment. That is to say only a very. few deposits have been made thus far and the amounts of them were meager. As a matter of fact the postal banks are an unnecessary makeshift. They will be little used in communities where there are banking facilities without them ex- cept when currency famine frightens the public and then they will be made a vehi- cle for draining the currency of the coun- ' try into Wall street, to the detriment of local enterprises and business prosperity. | EE ASR— { —eSitbscribe for the WATCHMAN, ! Farmer's Are Interested. 1 , No man has greater interest in the re- | i sultof the election than the rural resi- | dent. Year after year we hear, after the | | event, that this farmer or that failed to | vote for the reason that he was husking | corn or attending to some other farm ' work and coul dn’t spare the hour or two i facts that have been brought out in this campaign. Let Us Hire New Managers. By this time next week the election in Centre county will have been held and whether the result proves satisfactory to the taxpayers depends en- tirely upon the way the majority of them vote on Tuesday. The WATCHMAN has no last cards to spring. the minds of its readers or present anything other than a resume of the It has no desire to befog it seems to us that The Steel Trust Sait. | Only the very credulous will be fool- | ed by the proceedings recently begun | against the Steel trust by the administra | tion at Washington. As Judge GARY and | Mr. MORGAN state. | likely to seriously impair the trust. It | the | will do quite as much business in the! that litigation is not | Opera House News. —With that ambi- tion born of competitive zeal, and with | the American showman's desire to out- {shine all others in his line, manager | Vogel, the owner and manager of Vogel's | Big City Minstrels, which will appear in promises greatest First Part setting ever seen { Bellefonte in the near future, | necessary to go to the election. Probably | he is the owner of a farm worth eight or | ten thousand dollars or more and had | horses in plenty to convey him in a quick trip to the polls. But he felt that he | could husk a shock or two of corn in that | time, bad weather is impending and he | simply can't endure the thought of such [loss. Meantime through his neglect to | vote unfit candidates are chosen. | No man, especially no farmer and land | owner can afford to neglect his civic | duties. The election of an unfit board of | County Commissioners will cost the aver- | age farmer each year more than the loss of they are more than enough to convince the reasonable man that there should be a change in the management of the business affairs of the county. In the first place the Democratic party presents candidates for every office to be filled who are beyond reproach, both as to their fitness and moral characters. If we are not mistaken every man is actively identified with a church. This, in itself, is a notable condition and only goes to show that the Democratic party has been mindful of the public demand for clean men for the public service. You may have observed that both the Gazette and the Republican have repeatedly been congratulating themselves and calling attention to the fact that they were not in for a campaign of personalities. We fancy that their attitude was not so much because of reform in their usual methods, but because they could find no weapon with which to strike ¥ E in a minstrel production during the com- | near future as it has in the recent past | ing season. The promise is not like the | and the GARY dinners will proceed as usual claim of the indifferent and hap- | usual and be quite as rich and enjoyable | hazard producer, but the assured word as ever. The flurry in the stockmarket, | packed by fact. of a responsible and rep. | following the announcement of the suit | resentative manager. Mr. Vogel's first was a "frame up.” It was intended to | part for this season will be known as | spread alarm among the small share | “The Radium Palace,” from the fact that | holders, and to some extent succeeded | the entire stage will be set with myriads {in that purpose. But Mr. MORGAN and | of scintillating opalescent jets, of what | Judge GARY are not frightened in the might be termed “imprisoned sunshine.” least. They understand. | To be more specific, the entire First Part { The prosecution of the Steel trust is | setting will be hung with multi-colored | purely a political enterprise. If it meant | heads, imported by Mr. Vogel from the | business it would not have been brought | pest and biggest factory in Bucharest, | ZIMMERMAN, who will be re-elected if | the entire product of a five acre field of | 1 sn would amount to; A board of Commis- | sioners lacking in judgment or wanting | in integrity will waste more in the build" ling of bridges, repairing of roads and ! caring for public property than the dam- ‘ age to crops will amount to even if the | husking of corn is delayed a month. The ! profligacy of a careless board of Com- | missioners must be made up by increas- 'ing the taxes or neglecting needed im- ! provements in some direction. . Besides the election of unfit men to the | county offices works a deterioration of , the value of property in the county ef- ! fected. For example a man intending to buy real estate will ascertain, before he | invests, the tax rate and if it is above the average he won't buy there. If the tax | rate isn't above the average he looks at | the amount of public indebtedness and calculates the prospect of their being in- | | creased. If the taxes are to be increased | he won't buy. It is the certainty of an increase of taxation and the 30 year | mortgage that ZIMMERMAN and WooD- | | RING have fastened upon us, that lessens | the selling value of our farms. Fit pub. | | lic officials don’t allow things to get into | the condition your matters are in this | | county and the only way to secure good | officials is to go to the polls every year and vote for that sort of men. In this county the Democratic candidates, Mr: | NoLL and Mr.GROVE are fit and every man | should vote for them. WOODRING and | them in office. has been answered. it is true. in office. they are correct. The work that you county is plunged. Democrats fail to go to the polls, have | been tried. You know what a failure they have proven. Their 30 year mort- | gage on your farms tells that. vestment whatever. — : MAN will not need to raise your taxes ——The death of JOSEPH PULITZER, | editor of the New York World, is a dis- | tinct loss to journalism and the country. His career exemplified the possibilities of | | courage, integrity and intelligence and | his work was a public beneficence. Less than fifty years ago he came to this coun- try without money or influence and be- | fore his death he was able to accomplish | results which improved the conditions of | | human life in all parts of the world. The | newspaper which he conducted so long and so ably is a fit monument of his | achievements. ! never be able to get out from under. There is only one thing to be done. Get Out the Vote. Getting out the vote is no ecasy task | even if the party organization is approxi- mately complete. In every rural com- munity there are men who find it diffi- | It is not a question of the flag. a single man on the Democratic ticket. cult to go to the polls. Some are busy with their corn, others have their thresh- ing to look after and many are physically unable to go long distances to vote, even if they have the time. Organization to meet and overcome these difficulties . should receive the attention of all Demo- cratic voters between this time and the closing of the polls next Tuesday even- ing. There are various ways by which the result may be achieved. The easiest ‘way is the best and it is the duty of party workers to reason out the easiest way. Old, infirm and physically ill voters | | i then vote to change the management Sheriff down to the Auditors, And, more than that, they both knew that if the Democratic papers were to have opened up on at least two of their own candidates there may have been some revelations that would have startled the good people of Centre county. From Sheriff to Auditor our nominees are capable, honorable men, and they should every one be elected because it will be good business to put The WATCHMAN has called your attention repeatedly to the manner in which the county business has been attended to by the present officials and not one of the charges that it has made showing the gross mismanagement Neither the Gazette nor the Republican has uttered a word in the way of explaining why the Commissioners should have built bridge after bridge in Centre county without even having a letting. The public certainly had some right to know something of the High street bridge affair in Bellefonte after it became such a notorious scandal. not the first word of explanation has been offered. Therefore the only conclusion a reasonable person can come to is that all that has been said of If it is true, and it has not been denied, certainly you couldn't think of entrusting the men who are responsible for it with another term But The WATCHMAN has already given you the figures concerning the cost of the court house, so far as it is known. They have not been denied nor refuted by any of the county officials or the Republican organs because were told would cost not more than $60,000 will now require nearly $250,000 of your money to pay for. Why? Because the men who have been managing your business have not had enough business ability to do it right and not enough stamina to stand out against the blandishments of those who do not care how far into debt the Have you ever stopped to think that a big indebtedness means big taxes and big taxes mean high rents and low property values? Look at the town of Bellefonte for example. There isn’t a piece of property in the town that could be sold today for what the buildings on it cost. Why? Because the borough is so hopelessly in debt and the taxes so high that reality is no in- The Republican organs promise you that Messrs. WOODRING and ZIMMER- to pay the interest and provide the sinking fund for the bonds they have sold. A glance at the county state- ment during the two years they have already been checked up on will show you that outside of the expenditures on the court house the county has gone several thousand dollars deeper in debt each year. man we ask you then how they may be expected to pay $6,600.00 a year ad- ditional in interest charges without raising your taxes? If they don't raise them, if elected, there will be such a pile up of indebtedness as we will As an intelligent Start at the top of the ticket and vote to put a new regime in everywhere. While the Sheriff, the Register, the Recorder, the Treasurer and Auditors may not be responsible for the blunders of the Commissioners they are all part of the system. Part of the crowd that has been in control. coterie of Republican politicians who make and unmake officers and have no concern, whatever, for the people who have the taxes to pay. It is not a question of the tariff. is nothing to it but plain, hard headed business. county next Tuesday will be just the same as if you were going out to hire a manager for your farm, your store, your mill or your household; for your county officers are your managers. If you believe, knowing what you do know about the bridges and the court house, that the time has come to get a new manager for your farm, your store, your mill or your household Hand in glove with the little There The election in Centre of your county affairs, from the TL Tm Should Vote for Foreman. The citizens of the county who have any pride in their public affairs, and who want the court records properly tran- scribed and kept, and the public papers systematically and neatly filed can have should be taken to the polls in convey- ances. To accomplish this result it isn't necessary that all the vehicles in a com- munity be employed. One or two are ample and a fund should be provided by small contributions to pay the expenses of this service. But the conveyances | ‘should be at hand and ready at all times | yccess to them will tell you that there are during election day. It is a mistake to | no court records in the State, better leave the infirm or sick voters until near | cleaner or more intelligently kept. They the close of the polls in the evening. As are just as they should be. It is not ‘a matter of fact they should be brought claimed, even by his closest friends, that out early in the day so that they may ' Mr. Dein has any particular fitness for have plenty of time to prepare and de- this work. He has never even kept an posit their ballotts at the least possible ordinary set of books. To put the records sacrifice of comfort. In the evening there of the court proceedings, judgments and is always a rush. other important public papers in his keep- The party workers at the polls should ing is running a fearful risk. He may be have a complete roster of the voters and a good fellow, and might do some things know at any given time during the day ' as well as some other people would, but ‘not only who has voted but who has not. | it is an admitted fact—admitted even by - Without such preparation confusion is his own party backers—that he has no | certain to ensue and confusion invariably | qualifications fitting him for Prothonotary. no hesistancy in deciding who to vote for as Prothonotary on Tuesday next. Mr. FOREMAN, as a clerk in that office has had years of experience at this work. The books in the Prothonotary's offices are specimens of his care and attention. Lawyers and others who have irequent results in the loss of votes. With such ' method in operation every voter can be brought to the polls every time. Even voters who are inclined to be indifferent will be awakened to a sense of civic obli- gations by such evidence of energy and vigilance in party management. The principal cause of political lethargy is want of confidence in results and methods Then why think of voting for him, as | against one who has every qualification, who has been tried as a clerk, proven his ability to do the work, and has done it to the entire satisfaction of everybody who has any business with that office. No, Mr. Voter, if you want a competent man for this office, and its an important one, you'll never vote for HARRY DEIHL as while industry and activity inspire confi- ' against DAVY FOREMAN. dence. Let Centre county set an example to the State. ———Democrats if you have a neighbor who is physically unable to go to the polls next Tuesday, help him in whatever way will best achieve the resuit. It wil] be a service to the country as well as a help to your neighbor. And every voter, no matter what his politics, who knows the two candidates and wants to speak honestly, will tell you| this. -—Let nothing interfere with your exercise of the right to vote next Tues- day. Casting your vote is the highest duty you owe to your community. No Trading Democrats. Word comes to us from what we be- lieve to be from an entirely responsible source that Republicans have received orders from their bosses in this place to trade their two candidates for Commis- sioners, their candidate for Treasurer and their candidate for Prothonotary, to the best advantages of the balance of their ticket they can. If they can do no better | to trade all their candidates for a vote for YARNELL. They have suddenly wakened up to discover that there is no prospect whatever of electing both Commissioners, or DIEHL or PRITCHARD, and have turned in to try and save their Sheriff and are willing that the defeat of the others shall be made overwhelming, if YARNELL only can be elected. Its a measly way of treating candidates, but there are measly men in politics, and we don’t know of any who are worse tainted in that way than the little gang about town here who run the Republican politics of the county. To Democrats we appeal to turn down all offers to trade. The very fact that such propositions are being made, in nearly every part of the county, is evi- dence of the hopelessness of those mak- ing them. They know they can't elect their ticket and they don't care how badly some of the men on it are defeated, so that they can save the Sheriff. Democrats should remember that it's not necessary to trade to elect any of their men. A full and a straight vote will elect every man they have nomi- nated. And there is going to be a full vote. Let every man stand to his guns, and our county will be back to its old —Democrats “all together” on elec- tion day and the result will be all that can be desired. anti- in the civil courts. The SHERMAN | Roumania. Many American electricians | trust law, under which this farce has | been started, is a criminal statute. It | was intended to prevent men from ope- | rating corporations in a way that would | | restrain trade and impair commerce. If | | the Department of Justice in Washington | | really intended to achieve this result it | would have summoned Mr. MORGAN and | | Judge GARY into the criminal courts. { That sort of litigation would have meant | | something. It would have stopped the | criminal operations of the Steel trust and | all other trusts instantly. The suit against the Steel trust is sim- | | ply a subterfuge to stir up the careless | beneficiaries of the tariff and make them | “fry the fat.” It is not intended to in: fluence the elections in Pennsylvania, probably, for we have only one Congres- : sional election in this State this year. But Legislatures are to be elected in other | States which will elect United States Sen- | | ators and the Republican majority in the | | United States Senate is perilously small | | now and the party managers are anxious ' | to prevent any further decrease. Panics are Mr. J. PIERPONT MORGAN'S favorite instruments for accomplishing political | results and at thisdistance it looks as if he is experimenting. and scenic artists have seen the set, at a | special reception given by Mr. Vogel, and all agree that there has never been any- thing in the line of scenic splendor in this or any other country to compare favorably with this most wonderful and dazzling set. This set will be used in Bellefonte and is alone worth the price of admission, One of the best attractions to be seen here this season will be that quaint char- acter comedian, Harry Kelley in his famous success, “His Honor the Mayor.” Mr. Kelley starred in this piece for three seasons, and probably in his many other stellar roles, both before and after “His ' Honor the Mayor,” has never had as | successful a role as that of Deacon Flood, in this screamingly funny musical comedy. Among the many new features with the piece this season are the origin- al English dancing dolls, several new musical numbers by the principals with the famous beauty chorus and an entire new scenic equipment and beautiful electrical effects. those promi- nent in the cast are ie Flavelle, Ar- thur T. Earnest, who played with Mr. : Kelley in the original company at Wal- lack’s theatre in New York city. John E. i Pratt, last season with Louise Gunning, Vote Early. Jack Ryan, Roy La Rue, Cliff Worman, Democrats, its always a good plans todo | Dan Evans, Eleanore Sutter, Nate You. your voting early in the morning. It | Nejjie Dy Re red 4 Boo oh i | gives you a good start off, encourages | Flood, the deacon’s daughter. others to do the same thing, and puts life | ey into your party. If its possible at all{ CENTRE HILL CEMETERY.—The old arrange to vote before you go to your Pres byterian burying place at Centre work. That duty will be off your mind A Hill, Pennsvalley, is not often used as a in these days; but | done something towards the defeat of | those who have mortgaged your homes ! for thirty years, and piled an indebtedness | upon you of over $150,000. Remember Democrats that a full Democratic vote in the county cinches the election of every man on your ticket and gives you as clean a set of county officers as ever filled your | court house positions. ——DAVID R. FOREMAN, | cratic nominee for Prothonotary, is a type | of the sturdy sons born and bred in Pot | ter township. He was raised on a farm, | his education was confined to the public i schools, yet such good use did he make of his opportunities that he qualified as a teacher and for years was among the best in the county. He has been a resi- dent of Bellefonte for eight years or over, | long enough for everybody to know that. then and you will feel all day that you have | Place of interment the Demo- | | representatives of present and former | prominent families of the valley lie en- tombed there. The church, which has been moved to Centre Hall, has always desired to keep the place in order, but changes have reduced its numbers and consequently its ability and interest. Hence the place was fast filling up with nature's growth, and the surrounding wall was falling down. On several occasions recently the con- | gregation came together and did much to clear out the brush and briars; but the wall and some other improvements seemed too much for them. Besides it seemed only just that people who had left the valley and their dead behind them shoula assist in the work of putting and keeping the cemetery in order. Hence friends far and near were asked to contribute towards this purpose. The | he is a clean, sober and industrious man. | response was such that the trustees felt If each voter will intelligently compare | warranted in advertising for proposals to the merits of the respective candidates | put the wall in order. John Horner, of on election day and vote accordingly,there | Colyer, was the lowest bidder, and he will be no question about Mr. FORE-| has just completed his contract. The MAN'S election. wall has been rebuilt, where fallen down, . = ‘and the whole covered with a coping of Take Your Neighbor With You. concrete, and it looks as if it would re- When you go to vote next Tuesday sist the ravages of time for a century or morning don't forget your Demccratic More So far no oldest inhabitant has been neighbor who may be slow about going out. If you have a rig hitch it up and | found who knows when this wall was first i i built. The church records are complete take him along. Its the time you can! square up with the Bellefonte ring that | for only seventy-five years back, though has put an indebtedness of over $150,000 on your county and mortgaged your homes for thirty years, to pay $100,000 of it. ——The voter who fails to deposit his ballott is a drone in the conymunity. From the earliest inception of the spirit of freedom the right to vote has been the highest aspiration of manhood. The man to exercise it is lacking in patriotism and deficient in the qualities which make good citizenship. ing to secure efficient and capable public officials is not wasted. \ ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS. i ——— RAIN PREVENTS PENITENTIZRY COMMIS. SIONERS VISIT.—On account of the in- who fails to value this right sufficiently | , that will be ——Get out the vote even if it does | : | George W. Gray, the oldest resident of Ty cost a little frouble. Time spent in help. | ie ninetioth birthlay am | niversary, and he is still in comparatively ' good health. The history of his life reads like a romance. He was born in Hope. | well township, Bedford county, and in | those early days his only school was hard i the church dates from about 1779, but | these records do not mention the con- | struction of the wall. If any WATCHMAN i reader can give reliable in on tis Sblect, he will ig favor by ad- | of session, or the , Rev. W. Hen | Schuyler, Centre Pa. There is still much work to be done to put the ceme- | tery in first class condition; and, if those who have not yet sent in their contribu- | tions will do 50 Drompily, the labor of love and filial piety be continued till this sacred ts an appearance table to the survivors of {those who lie there for the last long ' sleep of the body. i —— Four Score AND TEN.—~On Monday work. When he was twenty-one years of clement weather this week the commis- | age he went to Hollidaysbuig and gota sion in charge of selecting a site for the | job as boatman on the old Pennsylvania new penitentiary did not visit Bellefonte | canal. Some years later he took up the Monday of next week. When they do rolling mills until 1861 when he entered come the entire board will be here and | thearmy and served all through the Civil as they intend going all over the ground | war. Some time after the close of the they naturally want favorable weather war he located at Milesburg and for conditions. All the options desired for | thirty years or more was one of the most the McBride gap site have been secured | faithful employees at the McCoy & Linn and are ready for the commissioners’ con- | iron works. Advancing age finally com- sideration. Aside from the above there pelled his retirement and during the past is nothing new nor any change in the | few years he has been making his home situation from last week. | with his daughter, Mrs. Jacob Shirk, of C—O er ——Miss Hannah Newman is ill at her | TYTORe. In 1844 he was united in mar- home in Altoona, suffering with a broken riage a Diabet Hargstes of Fer- arm, the result of a fall. 200 townslip; w sixteen years —e | ago. They had twelve children, six of ~—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. whom are living. this week, but postponed their trip until | life of a forgeman and worked at various" A